Armstrong

New Post tor Mr. A. L.

Trevor Johnson Goes to Tonga

IT was announced in Suva, Fiji, in June that Mr. A. L. Armstrong, OBE, who has been the British Agent and Con sul in Tonga since 1937, is shortly to return to Fiji. It is understood that he will undertake fin

portant duties in connection with post-war recon struction -in the Colony.

Mr. C. W. T.

Johnson, at present Assistant Colonial Secretary of Fiji, will replace him as British Agent and Consul in Tonga.

Both of these men are well and

favourably known

in the Central Pacific, and both are personally very popular. Mr. Arm-

strong, who Is 54 years old, joined the Fiji Public Service in 1915, and filled a wide variety of executive positions (in cluding Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs, Assistant Colonial Secretary, member of Executive and Legislative Councils, and Governor’s Deputy) prior to his appointment to Tonga.

Mr. Johnson, Assistant Colonial Secre tary since 1937, joined the Fiji service in 1910, and has filled many of the im portant executive positions around head quarters in Suva. He is 49 years old.

Mr. A. L. Armstrong